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AUSTRALIAN CHURCH RECORD Australian College of Educa- New Premises on the - First Months He Re-Thought out His a Comfortable Way to Live • Alekdy Abort People Executive The Australian 20 cents Secretary for False values inherent N1 ELKO LRNE resigned from the incum- Lausanne Rev H. J. Humphrey, from bency of St Peter's, Fawknei, 31st May 1975. in 'permissive society' minister in charge to incum- bent St Martin's Airport Follow-up West, February 1975. PERTH The Rev Gottfried Osei- The permissive society — Rev M. J. Jobling, from Mensah has accepted the "sired and nourished by the Church Record The Ven S. Fernando, at 11•61.0.d OW oast!. as minister in charge to incum- media" -- is increasingly No 1583 First published 1880 ',PRI! A 1975 present Archdeacon of invitation to he the first neromaperCalegory • bent Church of the New Executive Secretary of the being seen as "an illusion of Claim by Mrs Guinea Martyrs, Croydon Colombo, has been appointed Locum Tenens of St Pat- Continuation Committee of freedom," according to Mrs South, February 1975. Mary Whitehouse. rick's, Mount Lawley, for a the International Congress Rev A. L. Purbrlck, from on World Evangelisation for Speaking at the annual con- minister in charge to incum- period of 12 months. It ix Mary Whitehouse expected that Archdeacon a two-year period starting on vention of the National bent All Souls' Kallista, September I, 1975. This was Viewers and Listeners Asso- February 1975. Fernando willarrive in Perth shortly after Easter. announced today by the Com- ciation — of which she is Tragedy of a Rev R. T. Sharr, from mittee's Chairman, Bishop honorary general secretary examine themselves to see commitment to excellence, being On Leave in England to Rev Lewis Firman has been — Mrs Whitehouse said she how far they had been put on without which no society- can Archbishop of Jganda Jack Dain of Sydney, Aus- Chaplain Trinity College, appointed Chaplain to Swan tralia. was convinced that there was the defensive by the propa- have stability or cohesion. February 1975. Barracks. ganda against them. hungry world Mr Osei-Mensah, 40, has "a new awareness of "And it is these attributes Rev D. L. Griffin, deaconed Rev Hamish Philson, at been Pastor of Nairobi Bap- danger" and sense of disil- Had they been able to which have been persis- 9th March 1975 — assistant present Rector of the Parish tist Church since 1971. A lusion with false prophets, answer attacks with the tently and deliberately under- curate All Saints' Greens- of Victoria Park, has been Ghanian, he studied chemical particularly among young truth? — "which is that mined, with enormous poli- borough. appointed Rector of the National VALA, engineering at Birmingham people. far from tical and social con- Rev J. R. Oliver, examin- Parish of Cottesloe. He will speaks on conditions University and then served They were now prepared being some reactionary sequences." ing Chaplain 19th February be commissioned early in body, has pioneered much of as a sales engineer with to listen to an alternative Mrs Whitehouse 'added 1975. May. Mobil Gil in Ghana from voice, and VALA members the radical thinking about that broadcasters had a par- Rev P. J. Corney, induction Rev Roy Poole, who was 1960 to 1965. From 1966 to should take every oppor- broadcasting which is now ticularly big responsibility to St Hilary's, Kew, now 30 Acting Director of Home taking place." 1971 he was Travelling tunity to provide it. in the present situation. April 1975. Missions during 1974, has Secretary of the Pan African She said that for more than VALA had consistently A stance of neutrality was Rev E. King, from minister been appointed Executive warned of the consequences Fellowship of Evangelical a decade AMA had with- absolutely correct in poli- in his church in charge to incumbent St Officer, Anglican Health Students. stood and overcome "enor- if Christianity were deni- tical affairs, but indefensible Mark's Fitzroy, April 1975. and Welfare Services from mous and calculated pres- grated, moral values ignores' in matters of morality. Rev I). C. Farlie, has 1st Irchruar, 1975. He met his wife Audrey sures" on its credibility. and authority undermined. Both the BBC and ITV The Archbishop of Uganda, the Most Rev Janani Jakaliya Unworn said in while they were both stu- There had been attempts to The nation was now seeing should therefore now ask dents at Birmingham (she label them as middle-class the results of more than a themselves and their public Sydney last week that the church in Uganda is enjoying a resurgence of interest. TOP NEWS STORIES FOR 1914 served as Missionary Secre- reactionaries — which decade of such a course whether they might not have tary of the IVF Student "If we are to solve our prob- "a positive duty towards The Government turned to CHICAGO, 111 — The place was Watergate and the libelled the working class Spealdng to some representatives of the Church Press in Sydney he Executive Committee). They "by suggesting that it cares lems," Mrs Whitehouse leadership, rather than a ordination of I I women dea- impact of the political scan- us. The Government needs have two children. nothing for morality and the declared, "we need a sense of negative commitment to also spoke of the continuing need for missionaries and his willingness to cons to the Episcopal priest- dal on religious leaders and the church in that regard. quality of national life." duty and we need a sense of neutrality." hood in July was the top reli- institutions. The world food Mr Osei-Mensah will be re- share with the church in the West his experience of Christ. They not hindering the Mrs Whitehouse claimed discipline and service, a —"Church Times" gion news story of 1974, crisis placed fourth followed sponsible to the Lausanne There are three million Anglicans in t geode half of "The Government realises Church in any way." Continuation Committee in that there was also an inten- according to the Religion by "The Exorcist" pheno- many services are jeopar- Asked about his reaction to tion "to alienate the intellec- which are committed to Christ and enthusiastically Newswriters Association, in menon. Completing the top its role of stimulating world tual elite, an increasing involved in the church, the archbishop said. dised without expatriates. the WCC meeting in Nai- the US recently. The 10 stories were: the textbook evangelism in every possible number of whom are in fact When they left there was a robi he said: "We will be women's ordinations, later controversy in Wese Vir- way. In particular he will • disenchanted with the ethos We are at the moment — almost all doctors are big gap. The Government is drawn in. The church is gene- declared invalid by the ginia; the Lausanne con- serve the Regional Com- HERE FOR CONFERENCE of the permissive society, but praising the Lord that the from abroad." not succeeding in filling the rally happy about this event. Episcopal Church's House gress on evangelism; expand- mittees which are expected who are fearful of declaring churches are full. Pee hare to Missionaries came with the of Bishops, was selected as ing evangelical interest in to be formed in each conti- gap even with doctors from We wanted them to come to their anxiety in too unequi- use loud speakers to get to complete goodwill of the the top story by approxi- social concerns; the persis- nental area during the OF SU AT CANBERRA Egypt and teachers from Uganda but they preferred vocal a manner in case they. mately 50 percent of the 65 tence of the charismatic coming year, and he will be those standing outside. The Church. The Ugandan Bangladesh." Kenya." too, are labelled as illiberal persons who voted. (Both movement; and the role of available for public ministry. buildings are too small. The Government is encouraging fuddy-duddies." The Christian Century and church leaders with regard He made an outstanding runrmal church is nearing 100 year us to recruit Christian VA LA members should be Christianity Today, to "repressive" regimes in contribution at the Interna- anniversary in 1977. "We are doctors even for Government in no doubt, she said. "It is ecumenical magazines, South Korea, the Philip- tional Congress on World encouraging our pastors to hospitals the permissives who are reac- selected the same story as the pines, Brazil, Chile and Evangelisation held in Lau- tionary, who lack vision and enthuse people for these Asked what his attitude to major one for 1974.) In the South Africa. The RNA is sanne, Switzerland, in July compassion. celebrations". the moratorium controversy, RNA survey, in second made of religion writers or 1974, particularly with his "They offer us a, package he said: place was the dissension in editors for secular news- address on the work of Speaking on the role of which contains not only the the Lutheran Church-Mis- papers, news magazines and God's Spirit in evangelisa- missionaries in Uganda he "We do not think it is seeds of destruction but the souri Synod and in third news services, tion, said: "The Church in Uganda healthy to call for a mora- elements of cruelty, the made a deliberate policy. torium as such for there is no essence of repression; and we In the Rangpur district of Bangladesh, where this child helped by CMS UK to make carry a responsibility to need for it because the sheds his tears, famine has driven more than a million expose the essential hypo- it very tough for the local mission of the Church of God of the district's 5 million Inhabitants into government crisy of so much of their argu- church. No local priest was to is one, our mission is one. We camps for gruel and wheat pancakes — Religious New ment." he paid from abroad".
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